Valerie Vande Panne

Valerie Vande Panne is an an award-winning independent journalist and founder of Blackbird Literacy, an organization distributing books to Detroit residents and literacy programs. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, the Boston Phoenix, Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard Gazette, Harvard Law Today, Politico, Reuters and Salon, among many others. Follow her on Twitter: @asktheduchess.